Containers, containers, containers — this is the mantra of DevOps these days, and enterprise adoption of containers is set to soar. When one begins to consider the myriad of options available, it becomes difficult to decide which way to go.

So maybe this isn’t the coolest Raspberry Pi hack. But it was fun to make.

I uploaded the code to GitHub, so it’s free to modify and enjoy.

The reason I wrote this was simple: I wanted a way to snap photos while I was in front of the camera from my smartphone. I could have bought a fancy dongle and installed an app on my phone to get the same sort of behavior, but I already had a Raspberry Pi, and thought, “What if I could use that little mini computer to control my DSLR? It’s small, portable, and I can hook it up to my DSLR via WiFi…”